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TITLE:
Symphony CMS Multiple Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection
Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA46663

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RELEASE DATE:
2011-11-03

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DESCRIPTION:
Mesut Timur has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in Symphony CMS,
which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct SQL injection
attacks and by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.

1) Input passed via the "profile" parameter to the URL is not
properly sanitised in
extensions/profiledevkit/content/content.profile.php before being
returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML
and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected
site.

2) Input passed via the "filter" parameter to symphony/publish/images
is not properly sanitised in symphony/lib/core/class.symphony.php
before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute
arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context
of an affected site.

3) Input passed via the "filter" parameter to
symphony/publish/comments is not properly sanitised in
symphony/content/content.publish.php before being used in a SQL
query. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting
arbitrary SQL code.

Note: This vulnerability can further be exploited to conduct
cross-site scripting attacks via SQL error messages.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires "Author"
privileges.

The vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 2.2.3. Prior versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.2.4 or later.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Mesut Timur, Mavituna Security.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Symphony:
https://symphony-cms.com/download/releases/version/2.2.4/
https://github.com/symphonycms/symphony-2/commit/476e4926e2773588eab10dd3036f27e1411521b5

Mavituna Security (NS-11-008):
https://www.mavitunasecurity.com/xss-and-sql-injection-vulnerabilities-in-symphony-cms/

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